Islomania
"Islands belong to the sea like the dark sands of my memories. When the morning comes they are stepping stones to the sun. And the mighty blue ocean keeps breaking on every shore. Like the spirit that binds us together, we are so much more than islands..." -John Denver, lyrics from Island It's a gripping disease, but not one you'll find shown on WebMD or even in the pages of most dictionaries. Islomania is an obsession and an extreme partiality for islands. But it's more than that. Islomaniacs crave isolation from something . Sometimes it's isolation from society, sometimes isolation from technology, and sometimes isolation from reality. Garden Island (left) and Hog Island (right) breaking the horizon in northern Lake Michigan (photo by K. Walters) Were islomania better known, I'm sure those afflicted with it would be labelled as escapists, or some other -ist or -ism. What the labelers don't know is that escapists and islomaniacs are al